Nice, but honestly, I'm going to stick with the Deluxe. The chest on this version doesn't bother me as much as it used to. It's the huge backpack he has that bothers me enough to pass on this figure all together. He's got almost the entire car just hanging off of his back. It not only looks horrible, it also looks like it'll cause him to be a bit back-heavy, and hard to pose. Also, Epp's proportions seem a bit.... off.... There is one great thing to this figure, the alt-mode, but it's just not enough to make the $30+ cost of the figure worth it. I'd much rather buy a model of the concept car, rather than buy this, and just keeping it in alt-mode. The head sculpt, and it's paint job, is also pretty cool. It's interesting to see that he has sort of a face-plate going on there.

IMO,all other HA figures(Bumblebee,Skids,Mudflap and Barricade)better than Sideswipe...

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I agree. Granted, we obviously have more to see of the last two there, but my first impressions of those are better than mine of Sideswipe. The car mode is beautiful, but the bot mode just doesn't have much over the Deluxe. it's probably the last Human Alliance on my list so far.

What's the big deal about a backpack? It might be obvious and giant, but on the other hand I'm just happy to see a Bayformer with some sort of armor. The way the backpack folds and juts out, it looks like it protects the exposed back of a melee fighter in a gunfight, also it protects Epps.
Of course I'm already sold on the whole damn line because I've always wanted TFs to come with opening doors. Here's hoping some enterprising company makes Diaclone pilots scaled for HA figures.

Is Epp still a human ??? The Hell...It's like they tore off his arms and legs. Squished his body, knocked out the crotch, put his limbs back on, put him in front of a mirror, and his face was never the same.

What's up with Sideswipes face opening up like that? Seems like an oddly random thing to have in there.
And yeah, the physicality of the human figures are pretty nuts. I can forgive bad pant aps that result in creepy eyes though, since the figures in general are pretty tiny.

It's not really a bad figure by any good reason. But I do wish it had more going for it that made it stand out from the deluxe version. Like maybe haveing the arm blades actually fold up into his arms wolverine style. (Which Sideswipe actually did in the film.) That's a gimmic that would have really turned me on to the figure.